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Please pray for Teresa and all involved in this horrible case.
Teresa Lewis to be executed tonight 9pm EST
May she rest in God's Mercy
Teresa Lewis died early today after being given a lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Centre, the first woman to be executed in Virginia in almost a century.
The execution went ahead in spite of protests from lawyers, celebrities and others who argued that she should have been given clemency because of her low IQ. Under US law, anyone with an IQ of 70 avoids the death penalty. Lewis was judged to have an IQ of 72.
The 41-year-old was convicted of plotting to kill her husband, Julian Lewis, and her stepson, Charles Lewis. She persuaded two men to carry out the murders in return for sex and money. The two men received life sentences.
The Virigina correctional services said she had asked for her last meal to consist of fried chicken breasts, a dessert and a Dr Pepper. In her last hours, she saw her spiritual adviser and family.
Pleas for clemency were rejected by the governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, who said there was no "compelling reason". An appeal to the US supreme court was also turned down.
The last execution of a woman in the US was in 2005 when Frances Newton was injected in Texas. The last woman to be executed in Virginia was Virginia Christian in 1912, for suffocating her employer.
Lewis's motive was primarily money. She intended to pick up $250,000 (£160,000) in insurance from a policy Charles Lewis had taken out and which passed to his father on his death.
She recruited Matthew Shallenberger, with whom she had an affair, and Rodney Fuller, to carry out the murder. In 2002, she went to bed with her husband but got up to unlock the door and lock their pit bull terrier in another room. Shallenberger and Fuller then shot her husband and stepson.
Lewis waited 45 minutes before calling the police, but her husband was still alive and told the police she knew those responsible. She confessed a few days later.
About 6,000 people signed a petition calling for clemency, in part because of her claim to have found God and in part because of the apparent injustice of her receiving the death penalty while the two men received life.
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, referred to the case earlier this week on a visit to New York, saying the west had double standards – criticising Iran for sentencing a woman to be stoned but failing to show the same outrage in the Lewis case
Teresa Lewis died early today after being given a lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Centre, the first woman to be executed in Virginia in almost a century.
The execution went ahead in spite of protests from lawyers, celebrities and others who argued that she should have been given clemency because of her low IQ. Under US law, anyone with an IQ of 70 avoids the death penalty. Lewis was judged to have an IQ of 72.
The 41-year-old was convicted of plotting to kill her husband, Julian Lewis, and her stepson, Charles Lewis. She persuaded two men to carry out the murders in return for sex and money. The two men received life sentences.
The Virigina correctional services said she had asked for her last meal to consist of fried chicken breasts, a dessert and a Dr Pepper. In her last hours, she saw her spiritual adviser and family.
Pleas for clemency were rejected by the governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, who said there was no "compelling reason". An appeal to the US supreme court was also turned down.
The last execution of a woman in the US was in 2005 when Frances Newton was injected in Texas. The last woman to be executed in Virginia was Virginia Christian in 1912, for suffocating her employer.
Lewis's motive was primarily money. She intended to pick up $250,000 (£160,000) in insurance from a policy Charles Lewis had taken out and which passed to his father on his death.
She recruited Matthew Shallenberger, with whom she had an affair, and Rodney Fuller, to carry out the murder. In 2002, she went to bed with her husband but got up to unlock the door and lock their pit bull terrier in another room. Shallenberger and Fuller then shot her husband and stepson.
Lewis waited 45 minutes before calling the police, but her husband was still alive and told the police she knew those responsible. She confessed a few days later.
About 6,000 people signed a petition calling for clemency, in part because of her claim to have found God and in part because of the apparent injustice of her receiving the death penalty while the two men received life.
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, referred to the case earlier this week on a visit to New York, saying the west had double standards – criticising Iran for sentencing a woman to be stoned but failing to show the same outrage in the Lewis case
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales
I pray she repented and is now in the hands of our Saviour.
Not to change the subject but this guy is an idiot. One cannot compare sentencing a woman to be stoned, because of adultery, to sentencing a woman to a lethal injection (far more humane than stoning) because she plotted to murder people. I am not saying I agree with the death penalty. Just that this guy is a basket case. After hearing his interview the other day with Christine Amakour I was appalled at his lack of interest, his smart aleck responses and his lack of caring. All of these were more than obvious.The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, referred to the case earlier this week on a visit to New York, saying the west had double standards – criticising Iran for sentencing a woman to be stoned but failing to show the same outrage in the Lewis case
And so , with every beat of my heart, I thank You, my God, for your great mercy towards me.~Saint Faustina~
I'll say the chaplet for Teresa. A lot of my problems with the Death Penalty appear in this case, intellectual incapacity, usually poverty and abuse from an early age, and notably an unequal application of the sentence for her co-conpirators who received life.
pax lux,
karl
Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again? Job10:9
karl
Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again? Job10:9
